Mafia origins in Italy - form an internet web site

Date the origins of crime power in our country is very difficult. It's more simple to define its nature that represents a quite italian peculiarity. This doesn't mean that in other countries there are no forms of organized crime but over all in Italy the outlaw system has istorically defined itsself in certain organizations, each of them with its own characteristics and regional roots. The more disseminated phenomenon - that in migration period has been exported above all in rich countries as United States - is the one of Sicily mafia that is called "Cosa nostra".

Phenomenons of organized crime, with various branches, are from more than a century in Campania (Camorra), in Calabria ( ‘Ndrangheta) and in more recent times in Puglia too (Sacra corona unita).

In the photo, Falcone and Borsellino, two judges, mafia victims

	Italian Misteries
	Obviously the State in various ways trie to fight the mafia phenomenon as all organixed crimes, anyway Italy is often known abroad just as the mafia country and one of the important word in foreign dictionaries is just mafia.
	On the other hand, the mafia phnomenon endures from the Italian Unity: with the brigantage crossed entire decades, to change in the last times,striking bargainsdealing with drug and kidnappings.